{"id":1490,"date":"2011-05-31T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/2011\/05\/31\/man-maketh-the-world\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T17:33:00","slug":"man-maketh-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/2011\/05\/31\/man-maketh-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Maketh the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span style=\"color: #006600;\">I saw in the news a feature<br \/>About a small living creature;<br \/>Killed it was, without any cause,<br \/>Without a thought about its loss.<\/p>\n<p>Then I saw a documentary<br \/>And heard the full commentary<br \/>About man and his cruelty,<br \/>Destroying things, not knowing their utility.<\/p>\n<p>It came to me in a sudden flash,<br \/>That all man does is to clash;<br \/>When he can be a cannibal,<br \/>Why can\u2019t he kill a poor animal!<\/p>\n<p>One day in order to quench his thirst,<br \/>Would he be draining away the ocean?<br \/>Upto the level of the crust,<br \/>Would he be snatching away life portion?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing would be left then,<br \/>This world, a dessert barren,<br \/>This is not for what we strive,<br \/>Not this for what we crave.<\/p>\n<p>This day, let us take a vow<br \/>Into Mother Nature shall we sow<br \/>The roots of an atmosphere serene<br \/>Revitalizing the environment green.<\/p>\n<p>Words spoken from your mouth cannot be taken back;<br \/>If you can\u2019t, don\u2019t give; but take not life of others.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #006600;\">By Vaibhav Bhandari <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw in the news a featureAbout a small living creature;Killed it was, without any cause,Without a thought about its loss. Then I saw a documentaryAnd heard the full commentaryAbout man and his cruelty,Destroying things, not knowing their utility. It came to me in a sudden flash,That all man does is to clash;When he can &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-english","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}